#ancientcoin — Public Fediverse posts

For those with an interest in ancient Egyptian history (and who doesn't?!), you may know of the Ptolemaic kingdom, an ancient Greek royal dynasty based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Founded in 305 BCE by Ptolemy I Soter, a general of Alexander the Great, it lasted nearly 300 years until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom

William E. Daehn has written a new book: Historical and Numismatic Timeline of the Ptolemaic Empire which looks quite interesting (though doesn't appear to be available outside the US yet). See this article in E-Sylum: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n32.html#article5

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On the edge of the Roman Empire and at the end of it, someone was buried with a purse of coins which has proved to be quite an interesting find: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n19.html#article24

Grave A-104, was discovered in the 1960s in one of the late Roman cemeteries linked to the coastal fort of Oudenburg. The small objects once carried in the purse could help explain how people in northwestern Europe adapted after bronze coinage ceased arriving around A.D. 400.

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Still on #AncientCoins and this time on grouping them by food. Yes, this week, E-Sylum has an article on food depicted on ancient coins: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n19.html#article23

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